Month: April 2009

  • Twitter squarely on the mainstream map

    Hot news in the US yesterday was the popularity contest between TV actor Ashton Kutcher (the current husband of Demi Moore) and the CNN TV network to see who would be the first to acquire one million followers on Twitter.…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #440: April 16, 2009

    Content summary: Shel’s in Pittsburgh; take the 2009 FIR Listener Survey; next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio on April 25; FIR Listener Contest still awaits first entrant; Dan York reports on Domino’s Pizza and communication futures; the Media Monitoring Minute…

  • Get the WSJ on your iPhone

    I used to be a paying subscriber to the Wall Street Journal, one of only two newspapers whose online content I’m willing to pay for (the other being the Financial Times). When it came to the toss a few years…

  • Social media baptism for Domino’s Pizza

    Yesterday was quite a day for Domino’s Pizza‘s leadership and the communication team. It was a day during which the number of people who viewed a nasty video posted to YouTube by two rogue employees approached a million,  thousands of…

  • WordPress support a phone call away

    From WordPress developer Alex King, probably best known as the creator of many useful and popular WordPress plugins, this looks like a great idea: WordPress HelpCenter is a real-time support center for all things WordPress. We can answer simple questions…